Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Illustrator: N/A
Readability score: 5.8
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: Fantasy
Theme: family is worth fighting for
Primary and secondary characters: The primary character is Meg Murrary and the secondary characters are Charles, their father, Calvin, Mrs. Whatsit
Awards: Newbery Medal 1963
Publishing company: Random House Publishing Group
Date of publication: 1962
ISBN number: 9780440800545
Summary: This book is about a young girl named Meg Murray. She is having a hard time in her life as she is constantly teased about her appearance and also about her brother. People think that he is dumb, but they are just mean. Meg anxiously awaits for her father to return home, but he has been missing for a while. He is a physicist who experiments with 5th dimensions in time traveling. He went missing after he was experimenting. On a night that it was storming, it was setting the stage for foreshadowing. Meg's family was visited by a woman named Mrs. Whatsit. She was very smart and she wanted to take an adventure through space to find Meg's father. She wanted to take Meg, her brother, Charles, and their friend, Calvin. They would have to time travel and experience an evil force that was keeping their father a prisoner on a strange planet. This planet was considered to deal with conformity and personal freedom. This group takes an adventure to save their father and also save Charles as well. Meg is the one that saves Charles with her act of loving him. They are all reunited at the end of the book and all love one another.
This book represents an adventure that many students can create on their on. They can collaborate in groups on what they would do during their time travels. They can also decide their plans of action on what they would do to save Mr. Murray. On this planet of conformity they would need to decide if they would change it to personal freedom to make it better for others or if they would keep it the same. They can compare and contrast.
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